Artforum, Volume 36, Number 4, December 1997

The 1997 Year in Review issue. 

In his entry for "Top Ten x 12: The Year in Review", Gary Indiana lists the deaths of Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs as his #6 most memorable item in 1997, at page 93. This is accompanied by images of Ginsberg and Burroughs at the facing page, and the same image of Burroughs is on the cover. 

Earlier in the issue is a half-page advertisement for "Collaborative Works by William S. Burroughs and George Condo" at Pat Hearn Gallery, New York City, 6 December 1997 through 17 January 1998.

Published in New York City by Artforum in December 1997.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 19971200ARTF.36.4

Selected Contents: 

• letters
• Homi K. Bhabha: "Designer Creations" (essay on Princess Diana)
• Dan Cameron: "Glocal Warming" (essay on biennials)
• Peter Plagens: "Déjà Vu All Over Again" (essay on "Drear and Loathing")
• Greil Marcus: "Absent and Accounted For" (essay on the afterlife)
• Lisa Liebmann, Robert Rosenblum, Wayne Koestenbaum, Dave Hickey, Linda Nochlin, Gary Indiana, Boris Groys, Arthur C. Danto, Richard Buckley, Barbara Kruger, Richard Shone, David Rimanelli: "Top Ten x 12: The Year in Review" (lists)
• Libby Lumpkin: review of Robert Gober at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles'
• Anders Stephanson: review of Johan Grimonprez at Deitch Projects
• David Sylvester: review of Carl Andre at Paula Cooper Gallery, Ace Gallery, and Musée Cantini
• Malin Wilson: "Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions" (review of Site Santa Fe)
• David Frankel: review of Karen Finley at Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, P.S. 122
• Yve-Alain Bois: review of "Moves" at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
• David Levi Strauss: review of Allen Ginsberg at Tibor de Nagy Gallery
• exhibition reviews

Publishing Information: 

• Publisher: Anthony Korner
• Editor: Jack Bankowsky
• Managing Editor: Mike Topp
• Sound Editor: Eric C. Banks
• Associate Editor: Sydney Pokomy, Kristin Marriott Jones
• Assistant Editor: Meghan Dailey
• Photo Research: Laura Hoffmann
• Research: Corin Hewitt
• et al